amiable vs grim

amiable

adj
  • Of a pleasant and likeable nature; kind-hearted; easy to like 

  • Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious 

grim

adj
  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

verb
  • To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. 

How often have the words amiable and grim occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )